01.04.2010, 12:16, written by Mario Donick

Facing Ghosts of Other Players

As a player of LambdaRogue: The Book of Stars, you may have recognized the appearance of ghosts of your earlier characters, when examing crypts for treasure. But did you know that you can share your own ghosts with other players and import ghosts of others into your game? Actually, this is possible since 2007.

Ghosts are saved in bones.txt which is stored in the data-folder of your LambdaRogue-directory. You can give this file to another player and that player can merge it with its own bones.txt.

Although this could be done manually by opening both bones.txt in an editor and simply append the contents of the import file to the existing file, there exists a convenient option that can be called using the startup script (startlr.bat on Windows and startlr on Linux). Here's the trick:

1. Copy the bones.txt you got from another player into your LambdaRogue directory.
   
2. Open a console / terminal window and change to your LambdaRogue directory (using cd command).
3. On Windows, type startlr -merge-bones peter.txt to merge your current bones file with (e.g.) peter.txt. On Linux, type ./startlr --merge-bones peter.txt to do the same.
   

The startup script provides some other options, too. Here are some examples (here shown for Windows; on Linux all options begin with two dashes).

• type startlr -del-bones to delete your current bones file.
• type startlr -import-bones anne.txt to replace your current bones file with anne.txt
• type startlr -export-bones anne.txt to export your currents bone file to anne.txt

There exist also two options for managing character dumps:

• type startlr -show-dump Gandalf to show the character dump of  Gandalf (which is stored in "saves" folder automatically when created)
• type startlr -export-dump Gandalf peter.txt to export chardump of Gandalf to peter.txt

Of course, you could perform all these actions manually, but as these options exist since three years, I wanted to point them out once again.

You can upload your bones.txt to the LambdaRogue Forum (Google Group). There you can also post your character dumps to share it with other players.

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